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Adding a hyper-meta art moment, MOCA’s current durational performance, “Police State” by Pussy Riot frontwoman Nadya Tolokonnikova, continued until 6 p.m. inside the building, just without its usual live audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

Bass has a background in writing and dance, and over time her work has evolved from cerebral spoken pieces to intense durational art.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

And I feel like practices that are performance-based, that have a durational relation to materials, that are functioning within their own temporality outside of these market calendars — there is a power to that.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Gosti says the five-hour, durational performance was created in a response to the architecture and history of the building, and relationship to bodies and time.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2022

He inspires, supports, indeed inhabits, both the durational, conditioned, finite world of Becoming and the unconditioned, non-successional, infinite world of Being; yet utterly transcends them both.

From Songs of Kabir by Tagore, Rabindranath